| Autor: |
Das GK; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering., Bonifacio CS; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science., De Rojas J; Department of Physics One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616., Liu K; Department of Physics One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616., van Benthem K; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science., Kennedy IM; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of materials chemistry. A [J Mater Chem A Mater] 2014 Aug 28; Vol. 2 (32), pp. 12974-12981. |
| DOI: |
10.1039/C4TA02614D |
| Abstrakt: |
The contamination of drinking water with naturally occurring arsenic is a global health threat. Filters that are packed with adsorbent media with a high affinity for arsenic have been used to de-contaminate water - generally iron or aluminium oxides are favored materials. Recently, nanoparticles have been introduced as adsorbent media due to their superior efficiency compared to their bulk counter-parts. An efficient nanoadsorbent should ideally possess high surface area, be easy to synthesize, and most importantly offer a high arsenic removal capacity. Achieving all the key features in a single step synthesis is an engineering challenge. We have successfully engineered such a material in the form of nanochains synthesized via a one step flame synthesis. The ultra-long γ-Fe 2 O 3 nanochains possess high surface area (151.12 m 2 g -1 ), large saturation magnetization (77.1 emu g -1 ) that aids in their gas phase self-assembly into long chains in an external magnetic field, along with an extraordinary arsenic removal capacity (162 mg.g -1 ). A filter made with this material exhibited a relatively low-pressure drop and very little break-through of the iron oxide across the filter. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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